Sentences with phrase «as the astronauts wanted»

Uniquely, the Apollo 11 mission emblem does not name the crew, as the astronauts wanted to ensure it was applicable to all who worked on the mission.

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Well, since we've already established your future as a physicist / astronaut / doctor / entrepreneur / rock star (no pressure, I love you, I just want you to be happy), I know you or the teams of people you employ will be all over this someday.
As a girl I wanted to be an astronaut.
There are lots of countries that want to have a meaningful astronaut program, flying their citizens as astronauts rather than as tourists.
Davis says she wouldn't want to see radiation - sensitive astronauts kept from future missions to the moon or Mars, but she would want those astronauts to be prepared to take special precautions to protect their brains, such as wearing extra shielding or not performing space walks.
The space agency wanted that spacecraft to provide advanced communications and imaging as well as robotic science exploration in support of NASA's plans to send astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet or its moons sometime during the 2030s.
It's been common knowledge that NASA has wanted to send astronauts to Mars within the next two decades, but those proposals have been long on ambition and short on details — until now, as the US space agency has unveiled its five - step plan to send humans to the Red Planet.
However, the OIG report said that work on those replacements has been slow and complicated, in part because NASA did not have a clear plan as to exactly where it wanted to send astronauts next.
Arguably, the President laid out a vision three years ago — sending astronauts to an asteroid as a steppingstone to Mars — so «continuity of vision» would mean continuing on that path even though a strong contingent wants a return to President George W. Bush's 2004 vision of sending humans back to the Moon.
From then on, his son wanted to wear his astronaut costume to every medical appointment and wondered about how everyday tasks — such as grocery shopping or doing laundry — might function in space.
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